What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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I've been over what I'm supposed to say and I've got to tell you, it's pretty persuasive stuff, but is it the whole truth It's a slice of truth, a morsel, a fraction. It's a piece of the pie, certainly not the whole enchilada, and now that I've been thinking about it, I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle. Is there such a thing as objective truth I wonder.
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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.
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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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